If you pose the question to anyone that you meet, “When you die, where will you spend eternity?” Almost without exception the answer will come, “in heaven.” But if you press the issue to ask, by what evidence you make that assertion, it frequently will start to fall apart. You see most men, when they die, would choose to go to heaven, they just don’t want a Holy, righteous, just, God to be there.

If any individual is sitting in his doctor’s office, and the doctor explains, “You have a fatal illness that if left untreated will surely take you life,” we will all sit up and take notice. If the doctor continues by explaining that there is a new drug that has had a remarkable result in curing people that have your same fatal diagnosis, I expect that you would say “let me have it,” regardless of whatever it may cost. Yet we are all so very careless in our response to so great a savior in the person of Jesus Christ.

Do you ever try to imagine the magnitude, the holiness of God? I do, and I find it to be very difficult. The finite, us, stuck in 24/7, 365 days a year, trying to imagine the incomprehensible, eternal God. My mind usually wanders to the words from “How Great Thou Art.” That’s about as close as I come.